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Do not resuscitate, brain death, and organ transplantation: Islamic perspective.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Current state of ethical challenges reported in Saudi Arabia: a systematic review & bibliometric analysis from 2010 to 2021.BMC medical ethics · 2022Pooled it
- A Pilot Efficacy Trial to Educate Muslim Americans about the Islamic Bioethical Perspectives in End-of-Life Healthcare.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Trial
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- Meeting the Need for Corneal Transplantation in Syria: Islamic Perspectives and Barriers to Building a Sustainable Eye Banking System.Eye banking and corneal transplantation · 2025Article
- Outcome and critical care resources utilised by do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) patients admitted to the ICU at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia: a retrospective review of the critical care database.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
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- Awareness and Willingness towards Organ Donation among Riyadh Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Awareness, Attitudes, and Willingness: A Cross-Sectional Study of Organ Donation in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Death pluralism: a proposal.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2023Article
- Perceptions and experiences of community-based healthcare professionals in the state of Qatar having do not attempt resuscitation discussions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Patients' preference approach to overcome the moral implications of family-centred decisions in Saudi medical settings.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- How a compensated kidney donation program facilitates the sale of human organs in a regulated market: the implications of Islam on organ donation and sale.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2022Article
- Deceased Organ Transplantation in Bangladesh: The Dynamics of Bioethics, Religion and Culture.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
- A Holistic Assessment of Organ Transplantation Activities, Scientific Productivity on Brain Death in Islamic Countries, and Comparison of the Outcomes with the United Nations Development Statistics.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- [Ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions].Notfall & rettungsmedizin · 2021Review
- Allied Muslim Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Death by Neurologic Criteria.Neurocritical care · 2020Article
- Use of a Mortality Prediction Model in Children on Mechanical Ventilation: A 5-Year Experience in a Tertiary University Hospital.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2020Article
- Knowledge and attitude toward do-not-resuscitate among patients and their relatives visiting outpatient clinics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2020Article
- Legislative Enforcement of Nonconsensual Determination of Neurological (Brain) Death in Muslim Patients: A Violation of Religious Rights.Journal of religion and health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Muslim patients and families are often reluctant to discuss and accept fatal diagnoses and prognoses. In many instances, aggressive therapy is requested by a patient's family, prolonging the life of the patient at all costs. Islamic law permits the withdrawal of futile treatment, including life support, from terminally ill patients allowing death to take its natural course. "Do not resuscitate" is permitted in Islamic law in certain situations. Debate continues about the certainty of brain death criteria within Islamic scholars. Although brain death is accepted as true death by the majority of Muslim scholars and medical organizations, the consensus in the Muslim world is not unanimous, and some scholars still accept death only by cardiopulmonary criteria. Organ transplantation has been accepted in Islamic countries (with some resistance from some jurists). Many fatwas (decrees) of Islamic Jurisprudence Councils have been issued and allowed organs to be donated from living competent adult donor; and from deceased (cadavers), provided that they have agreed to donate or their families have agreed to donate after their death (usually these are brain-dead cases). A clear and well-defined policy from the ministry of health regarding do not resuscitate, brain death, and other end-of-life issues is urgently needed for all hospitals and health providers in most (if not all) Muslim and Arab countries.
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